Weekly Articles
Clear guidance on choosing sustainable technology, building the right product, and connecting business requirements to maintainable engineering systems.
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Alongside this site, I publish practical articles on AI workflows, cloud architecture, automation, QA, product engineering, and technology leadership.
AI Product Development
A practical workflow for designing and building digitization products with process workshops, mind maps, user stories, architecture, AI coding agents, MCP tools, and build discipline.
Forward Deployed Engineer
How embedding a single engineer end-to-end eliminates translation loss and ships better enterprise AI applications — from requirements through design thinking, architecture, and production.
AI Strategy
Every operational business wants AI. Most are not ready for it. The problem is almost never the technology — it is what comes before it.
Technology Strategy
Tech stacks age. If yours is slowing your team, killing your hiring, or making business decisions for you, it is time to take a hard look.
Fractional CTO
Both write code. Only one is thinking about your business. Here is what separates a developer from a CTO — and why it matters before you hire.
Fractional CTO
Why business leaders need a bridge from real requirements to proven, maintainable technology choices.
AI Strategy
A pragmatic way for operational businesses to adopt AI without creating brittle systems or expensive experiments.
LangChain
Should you build your LangChain service in Python or integrate it into a NestJS ecosystem? A comparison across performance, maintainability, hiring, and speed.
OpenAI
A scalable, cloud-native resume skill-matching bot built with Google Apps Script, Google Sheets, and OpenAI, turning Sheets into a lightweight ATS.
LangChain
How I used LangChain and Pinecone to turn a reactive chat assistant into a remembering, context-aware product, with lessons from production.
Kong
Deploy Kong as an API gateway in front of microservices using Docker Compose and Deck declarative config, with a bonus GitHub Actions workflow for Cloud Run.
Tailwind CSS
After 48 hours of debugging broken layouts and purged classes in a Next.js app, here's what went wrong with Tailwind v4 and how we rolled back to v3.3.5.
Firebase
Step-by-step guide to integrating Microsoft login with Firebase Auth in a Next.js + TypeScript app, including Azure/Entra setup, code, and troubleshooting.
QA Automation
Why moving QA automation from Java to Python delivered a major boost in development speed, plus the Python testing ecosystem worth knowing.
Next.js
After three days of debugging file uploads in a Next.js API route, the fix turned out to be five lines that disable the default bodyParser.
OSM
A guide to parsing and analysing OSM PBF data using Python and Osmium, extracting node/way/relation counts, way distances, and intersection stats.
Fine Tuning
Why general-purpose LLMs fall short on domain-specific tasks, how fine-tuning fixes it, and the open-source LLMTrainingTools repo for building Q&A datasets.